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CITE MOSCOW 62359

TO: PRIORITY DIRECTOR INFO ST PETERSBURG.

FOR: LIMIT CE/R/IO INFO C/CE/R, DC/CE
“SLUGS: WNINTEL GTDANCER NQHAYWIRE
" SUBJECT: 11 NOVEMBER 1993 MEETING WITH THE. SVRR

REF: A. MOSCOW 62226 93 4516923
B. MOSCOW 62260 93 4536763
C. MOSCOW 62261 93 4536806

TEXT:

1.° ACTION REQUESTED: SEE PARAS FOUR AND FIVE. SEPARATE
CABLE TRAFFIC CONTAINING SPECIFIC REQUESTS FOR ACTION WILL BE
FORWARDED TO. APPROPRIATE HQS ELEMENTS.

2. ON THE MORNING OF 11 NOVEMBER 1993, LEONID
((RYABCHENYA)), DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF THE FOREIGN LIAISON
DEPARTMENT, RUSSIAN FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE SERVICE (SVRR)
TELEPHONED TO ARRANGE AN "URGENT" MEETING WITH COS. THE :
MEETING TOOK PLACE AT 1600 HOURS AT KOLPACHNIY PEREULOK. REFS
CONTAIN STATION’S TRANSLATIONS OF THE ITEMS RYABCHENYA PASSED
DURING THE MEETING (TEXT OF A LETTER TO THE DCI FROM PRIMAKOV
‘CONTAINING HIS THOUGHTS ON THE MIDDLE EAST AND. THE CURRENT
PEACE PROCESS; A PAPER ON AID TO THE BOSNIAN MUSLIMS; AND A.
‘PAPER ON THE SITUATION IN SOMALIA, RESPECTIVELY.)

' 3. RYABCHENYA ALSO RAISED THE NAME OLEG ((NECHIPORENKO) ),
RETIRED SENIOR KGB OFFICIAL. AS WE KNOW FROM PRESS ACCOUNTS,
NECHIPORENKO'S BOOK, "PASSPORT TO ASSASSINATION" WHICH PROVIDES .
*NECHIPORENKO’S ACCOUNT OF<LEE HARVEY OSWALD’S>INVOLVEMENT IN
THE ASSASSINATION OF JOHN F. KENNEDY IS SCHEDULED TO BE
PUBLISHED IN MID-NOVEMBER. RYABCHENYA SAID THAT NECHIPORENKO
IS PLANNING TO TRAVEL TO THE U.S. ON BOOK PROMOTION TOUR.
RYABCHENYA STATED THAT HE WAS BRINGING THE SUBJECT UP IN ORDER
TO PUT ON RECORD THAT THE SVRR HAS NO CONNECTION TO THE BOOK,
ITS CONTENTS, OR NECHIPORENKO'S TRAVEL. RYABCHENYA WAS ADAMANT
THAT THE ENDEAVOR WAS "100 PERCENT PERSONAL."

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4. NEXT RYABCHENYA INQUIRED WHETHER ANY DECISIONS HAD BEEN
MADE WITH REGARD TO THE SCHEDULING OF THE NEXT EXCHANGE ON
YUGOSLAVIA. . HE RECALLED THE NEXT ROUND OF DISCUSSIONS WERE ~
TENTATIVELY SCHEDULED TO TAKE PLACE IN DECEMBER 1993 IN.
WASHINGTON. REQUEST HQS ELEMENTS INVOLVED ADVISE. INTENTIONS
FOR THE SCHEDULING OF THE NEXT EXCHANGE .

5. RYABCHENYA ALSO INQUIRED ABOUT THE STATUS OF THE
“UNCLASSIFIED PAPER PRESENTING THE FINDINGS OF THE U.S.
SCIENTISTS INVOLVED IN THE ENVIRONMENTAL TASK FORCE EFFORT
SCHEDULED TO BE PUBLISHED IN OCTOBER 1993. HE REMINDED COS OF

‘. OUR PROMISE TO PROVIDE A COPY (A. PROMISE MADE FIRST DURING THE
VISIT OF THE ETF TEAM IN JULY AND LATER REPEATED BY THE DCI .
DURING HIS 9 AUGUST. MEETING WITH SVRR LEADERSHIP). RYABCHENYA
EXPLAINED THAT THE SVRR HAS HELD SOME MEETINGS WITH RUSSIAN
SCIENTISTS AND IS WORKING ON A PROPOSAL FOR AN EXCHANGE OF -
VIEWS BETWEEN U.S. AND RUSSIAN SCIENTISTS ON THIS SUBJECT.
AFTER THEY HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO REVIEW THE. PAPER, THE SVRR
WANTS TO MOVE FORWARD AND SCHEDULE AN EXCHANGE OF VIEWS BETWEEN
U.S. AND RUSSIAN SCIENTISTS. (AN EVENT MOTIVATING THE SVRR‘S
DESIRE TO MOVE FORWARD WITH THIS INITIATIVE IS, OF COURSE, THE

. GORE/CHERNOMYRDIN MEETINGS SCHEDULED TO TAKE ‘PLACE IN MOSCOW IN
THE MIDDLE OF NEXT MONTH.) REQUEST HOS PROVIDE A. COPY OF THE -
UNCLASSIFIED PAPER BY THE MOST -EXPEDITIONS MEANS POSSIBLE.
LENGTH PERMITTING, SUGGEST USE OF SECURE FAX TO THE STATION.

5. FILE: 74A-002- 001. -DECL OADR DRV LIA 1-87.
END OF MESSAGE ; -SEecREE—

